Officially closed, the reservation system was officially in full swing. It was a time of great change but the beginning of what we think of as modern america, the end of what we think of as native American Life. Those things were more complicated than we think. Host why do you view it that way . Guest 1890 was the last Armed Conflict between native folk and the American Government, the massacre of wounded knee in south dakota, 150300 lakota men, women and children were massacred by the cavalry. That moment came to stand in for so much of American History up to that point. Host december 29, 1890, what happened . Guest it was the tail end of the murder of sitting bull, things were unsettled and people were looking for shelter and there was a band of native people, they left where they were on horseback, and intercepted by the cavalry who rounded them up and tried to starve them. It is unclear what happened next. The cavalry started shooting, opened fire with hotchkiss guns and murdered 5
Officially in full swing. It was a time of great change but it was sort of the beginning of what we think of as modern america. And the end of what we think of as native american bought those thing were untrue. Why do you 1890 to by that dividing line. 1890 was the year of arguably the last conflict, Armed Conflict between native folks and the American Government. At the massacre another wind knee in south dakota where between 150 and 300 lakota men, women and children, principally women and children were massacred by the reconstitutioned cavalry, and that moment, that moment came to stand in for so much of American History up to that point. Host december 28, 1890, what happened . Guest there was this is on the tail end of the murder of sitting bull. Things were unsettled around the on the agency and people were looking for shelter, and there was a band of native people who were going to find shelter with another band ask they left where they were and they were on foot and horseback, h
Women and children, principally women and children were massacred by the reconstitutioned cavalry, and that moment, that moment came to stand in for so much of American History up to that point. Host december 28, 1890, what happened . Guest there was this is on the tail end of the murder of sitting bull. Things were unsettled around the on the agency and people were looking for shelter, and there was a band of native people who were going to find shelter with another band ask they left where they were and they were on foot and horseback, heading to the agency, and they were intercepted by the cavalry, who rounded them up and tried to disarm them, and unclear what happened next but the cavalry started shooting, opened fire with guns, and murdered about 150 people. The government was really nervous about what they were convince weed be an indian uprising because of the ghost dance and other things going on in the plains, but really they just murdered a bunch of people trying to find shel
But i had a wonderful professor at Columbia Law School who later moved to stanford, jerry gunther. He was in charge of getting clerkships for columbia students, and he called every federal judge on the Second Circuit, in the southern, eastern districts of new york, and he was not meeting with success. So he called a columbia graduate, judge edmund palmieri, who was a columbia undergraduate, Columbia Law School graduate and always took his clerks from columbia. And he said i strongly recommend that you engage ruth Bader Ginsburg. And palmieris response was ive had women law clerks, i know theyre okay, but shes a mother, and sometimes we have to work on weekends, even on a sunday. So professor gunther said give her a chance, and if she doesnt work out, a young man in her class whos going to a Downtown Firm will jump in and take over. So that was the carrot. It was also a stick, and the stick was if you dont give her a chance, i will never recommend another columbia graduate as your law c
They find the resources to tell them the story, but also try to figure out the significance of their topics in history. So theyre going into archives, into museums, into libraries and theyre sifting through primary sources, secondary sources and theyre thinking critically about that and why their traffic was important in history as related to the annual theme and this year is triumph and tragedy and them they present their findings in different formats and one of the categories that you see behind me and theres also paper category and dramatic performance, documentary or website. So history day gives kids an opportunity to be creative in the way in which they present their information. So for performance category, they first have to do their research. Good, Solid Research into primary and secondary sources. Going into the museums, say its the civil rights topic and theyll find someone to do an interview with, but basically, the research that historical quality, the information and the